Michael Gambon

Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.Read More »

Set in County Cork,in 1920, the drama unfolds at Danielstown House, the home of Anglo-Irish aristocrats Sir Richard Naylor (Michael Gambon) and his wife, Lady Myra (Maggie Smith). As the war for Irish independence escalates around them, Sir Richard’s nineteen-year-old niece, Lois (Keeley Hawes), struggles with her longing for love and the yearning for freedom. She is being courted by a British Army captain (David Tennant) who is deeply in love with her. But when she discovers an old childhood friend who is now an Irish freedom fighter hiding on their estate, she becomes fascinated by the rebel he has become. It’s not long before the violent turmoil that has thus far remained at a safe distance threatens to transform all their lives forever.Read More »

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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.Read More »

Synopsis:
‘Inspired by a visit to Turkey and Pinter’s experience of the suppression of the Kurdish language, this short, sharp shock of a play explores the increasing intolerance of dissent.
Written in cold fury, it’s a play that shows how, in dictatorial states, the suppression of language becomes an extension of physical brutality.’
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Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career – but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter.
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